Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Ballynakillew, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynakillew
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.46088, -9.11424
- SMR number
- GA041-007----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In level pastureland. Discovered in 1986 while digging foundation trenches for a house. Bones of several adults, including two skulls covered by a small limestone flag, were uncovered. These lay at a depth of c. 0.25m below the surface. Vague local tradition of burial at this spot.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.